Gemini 3.8 Flash builds a working game from a single prompt, no frontier model needed
ColbyHawker · x · 2026-09-03
Developer Colby Hawker shared a demo showing Gemini 3.8 Flash building a complete game from a single simple prompt, arguing "you no longer need the largest model to get amazing results" — a sign that small models' coding ability is closing in on frontier models for lightweight app development. The attached video shows the finished game.
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